| Welcome to How to Do Everything: Adobe Illustrator CS4! Adobe Illustrator is the number-one vector graphics program being used today by professionals. This program is the essential tool for graphic artists, video production artists, web and interactive designers, and professionals in other industries who use graphics to communicate ideas visually in print, on the Web, in motion graphics, and via mobile devices. Adobe Illustrator CS4 is superior in design features to prior versions of the program. It has better integration with other Adobe applications and a new and improved workspace layout, plus several new and enhanced drawing tools and controls.
This book is written for illustrators, artists, designers, hobbyists, scrapbookers, craftspeople, and anyone else who wants to take their illustrations, drawings, sketches, page layouts, web designs, patterns, craft projects, and artwork into the computerized vector-art world of Illustrator. Whether you’re new to Illustrator or upgrading from an earlier version, you will discover in these pages how to master the most important features of Illustrator CS4.
You don’t need any prior experience with Illustrator to read this book, but you should already know how to use a computer and a mouse, know the difference between a click and a doubleclick, and understand the basic workings of a software program in order to do things like access commands from the main menu, use keyboard shortcuts and the context menu, and open and close windows and dialog boxes. |
